WEA Alert

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So I'm sitting at my desk when all of the sudden my phone starts making this annoying sound like they use for severe weather alerts on TV. I was using a tethering app at the time so the first thing that popped in my mind is that Verizon detected it somehow and fried my phone to get even. But when I picked it up there was a message on the screen advising me that I might die in a possible flash flood that might occur in my area...

Pretty neat, I just hope we don't get them too often, especially in the middle of the night. Here is more info on it:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...BrZU_blog.html

I believe the stock TW messaging app has some emergency alert setting in it. Im not at my phone right now so i can't tell you exactly what it says.

Same thing here. Cool as Hell

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ive gotten this twice since release day. One was for flood warning and the other tornado warning. Im in NYC WTF!!!! LOL scared the **** outta me! The tornado almost touching down in Midtown was one of the craziest things ive ever seen! I just wish we could change the ringtone, its loud and super annoying but I guess thats the point.

is there any way to disable, i dont wanna know if im gonna die

Stock messaging app, settings, all the way at the bottom.

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Originally Posted by badseed767

Stock messaging app, settings, all the way at the bottom.

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i was referring more to the presidential one

I haven't found a way to disable the presidential alerts without replacing the stock messaging app with the apk pulled from an AOSP rom.

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Originally Posted by Karl

i was referring more to the presidential one

You did read the article posted in the OP right? Regardless, badseed posted what likely is the easiest way to avoid these alerts.

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Just what I need, the government in my phone.